HOW LONG DID THE SUPPOSED AVATAR OF THE AGE - SATHYA SAI BABA- LAST?
1) Print this Page 2) Use right click here - then 'Open page in new window' to translate THIS PAGE WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN YEARS BEFORE SAI BABA'S DEATH DATE (24/4/2011):- The facts are:- from 9 Sept 1960 (when he was 43 calendar years old) plus 59 years = 2019 AD. He lived until age 84 by normal calendar reckoning, dying in 2011. Eight years short on calendar reckoning (which he always used in public, despite concocted, undocumented rumours that he once or twice did not). This does not reach the minimum requirement of 93 years, which he twice predicted in separate discourses. Nor by far does it reach 96 years, which he also stated was the age he would reach - as all commentators agree. However one twists and turns it, the calculations do not fit the prediction. Will Sathya Sai Baba die on his own birthday?
The Norwegian journalist, Thorbjørn Færøvik, who visited Prashanthi Nilayam in 1998, reported the following statement from the organizer of the World Conference on the Future of Humanity:-
Which age will it be? Ninety-two, Ninety-three, Ninety-four or Ninety-six? Or whenever he sees fit? It is interesting too that no Indian astrologer who has made predictions about Sathya Sai Baba has given the date of his death... though most of them they do this with great confidence for anyone who wants! So what about when Sai Baba's prophecies are so self-contradictory? Some of his words on that a certain to fail. Many of his words have already failed, as documented profusely on this website. Add to the above the teaching of Sathya Sai Baba and others that no one can ever aspire to be anything better than servants of the Lord himself (i.e. Sai Baba!) and to work for him selflessly in total obedience to his all-powerful will. This is a teaching that allows for the complete manipulation of persons to do the will of the guru. No more clever way of taking away people's freedom - making them censor themselves entirely and give up all autonomy and all rights - has ever been devised. It is the subtlest of means of gaining power to protect his misdeeds and abuses. Countless millions of people have, through the ages, grovelled and kowtowed to personages they imagined to be either God in person, or the highest representative of Divinity. One small example, little known nowadays: the Mahdi in Sudan whose followers - imagining themselves invulnerable to Maxim guns - were mown down by the British at Omduran. Any number of 'Divinities' - whether God-Kings, Pharaohs, Caesars and so on, have come and gone. Claimants to Divinity with multi-million followings are dispersed into the mists of time and almost forgotten but to historians. We can confidently await the further fall of the highly questionable Sathya Sai Baba, whose adharmic (i.e. 'unrighteous') activities have already been exposed to the world. His claims will not hold, he will not lift mountain ranges or fly through the air. He will not live to be 96 (he has himself said in published discourses that he would live until, age 93, but some fool devotee author got it wrong and wrote 96 and this figure was the one that stuck!). At whatever age he departs this earth, the believers, having been deluded by his many deceptions, including his psychic powers (none of which are not found elsewhere, even today), will find a rationalisation for it, as they do for everything else. The state of his health is a closely-guarded secret, though his debilities can be seen in that he cannot walk without support and then only a few yards. Were it to be known, for example, that he suffers from osteoarthritis, the consequences for many followers would be further to doubt his claims of perfect health as a concomitant of his alleged divinity, purity, patience and perseverance (which he holds are a guarantee of perfect health!). The large and protective social environment built up around him and his ashrams - which are dependent on the flow of donations - has already suffered consequences as his reputation has sunk. For the poor believers, it will be another of his 'lessons', another 'test of faith' doubtless. Probably only completely credulous 'blind faith true believers' or badly misinformed and deluded followers are now active in supporting him and covering up his many misdeeds, bogus claims, fraudulent 'materializations' and ignorant proclamations and unworldly and misinforming 'teachings'. |
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The Sathya Sai Organisation - both centrally and in various countries - claim that he calculated his lifespan in lunar yearts, not solar (calendar) years. They juggle with various figures and lunar month lengths and try to get his age up to over 90, but none of the calculations agree withe their assumption of lunar years. The concept of a 'lunar year' is actually not valid at all in astronomical terms, because a year is by definition the time it takes for the earth to circumnambulate the sun. But 12 lunar months never amounts to a year... so the concept is a non-starter- But not for Hindu shastris who operate with their own obscure and contorted ideas. They are called in trying to rationalize away the hard fact that Sathya Sai Baba lived for only solar/calendar 84 years, and that he always reckoned in calendar years in every documented word (despite desperate claims that he told other things in private!). Some of the many comments about this 'lunacy' of denial on the Internet are shown in the inset scanned material. See a yet more detailed analysis 
